Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-20
bow TO Save CITIES.
A Work for the Broom and Shovel
Naught Else Can Do Connection
Between Iniquity and Dirt.
Filthy Parts Of the Great Cities Always
the Most IniquitOus-New Y0rk's
Fourth Ward an Example.
OGe of the Numerous Blessings of the Sab.
bath That IL is Day of Ablution.
Cleanliness Next to Goodness.
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BROORLYN, n. Y, June I9.-Thit
morning at the Tabernacle the Rev. T
Dewitt TaImage read, previous to the
sermon, portions of Scripture descript
i've of ancient cities, and gave out tn,
hymn:
Fields are white the harvest waiting,
Who VIII bear the sheaYes away?
His text was: "And the men OF the citv
said unto Elisha, Behold, pray thee, tn,
situation OF this city is pleasant, as m,
Lord seeth; but the water is naught, anC
the ground barren. And he said, Brins
me new cruise, and put salt therein
And they brought it to him. And he wen
forth unto the springs o. the waters, anC
cast the salt in there, and said, Thus
saith the Lord, l have healed these wa
ters; there snail not be from thence any
more death or barren land. So the wa
tiers were healed unto this day.
Kings ii: 1872. DR.. Talmage said:
1t Is difficult to estimate how much Of
the prosperity and health of g city are de-
pendent upon good water. The time
when, through well-laid pipes and from
safe reservoir, an abundance of water
from CTotOn, or RidgewOOd, or SchuyI-
kill, is brought into the city, is appro-
priateIy celebrated with Grafton and py-
Totechnic display Thank God every day
for clear, bright, beautiful, sparkling wa
ter, as it drops in the shower, or losses
up in the fountain, or rushes out at the
hydrant.
The city of Jericho, Notwithstanding
81 its physical and commercial advant-
ages, was lacking in this important ele-
ment. There was enough water, but
IT WAS DISEASED,
and the people were crying out
oy reason thereof. Elisha
the prophet comes TO the
rescue. He SIS 5: "Get me 8 new cruise;
I'll It with salt and bring IL to me-" So
the cruise of salt was brought to the
prophet, and I see him walking out to
the general reservoir, and he takes
that salt and throws 1t into the
reservoir, and lol all the impuri-
ties depart, through & supernatural
and divine influence, and the waters are
good and fresh and clear, aud Gil the peo-
pie clap their hands and lift mp their faces
il the gladness. Water for Jericho-Clear,
bright beautiful, God-given water.
At different times l nave pointed out
to you the fountains of municipal corrup-
ton, and this morning l propose to show
you what are the means for the rectitca-
ton Of those fountains There are four
or FIVE kinds Of salt that have q cleansing
tEndency. SO far as God may help me, |
Shall bring cruise Of salt to the work,
and empty it into the great reservoir of
municipal crime, sin and shame, ignor-
ance and abCminstiOn
Ia this work of cleansing cur cities, |
have first TO remark, that there is work
for the broom and the shovel that moth
ing else can do. There always has been
an intimate connection between iuiquity
and dirt. The filthy parts Of the great
cities are always the most Ubiquitous
parts. The cutters and the pavements
Of the Fourth ward, New York, illustrate
snd symbolic the character of the people
N the Fourth ward.
The first thing that a bad man does
when he is converted is thoroughly to
wash himself. There were, this morning,
on the way to the different churches,
thousands Of men in proper apparel
VINO, before their conversion, were unfit
in their Sabbath dress. When on the
Sabbath / zee man uGCleanly in his
MORAL CHARACTER ARE AROUSED,
and they are alwsys well founded. SO as
10 allow no excuse for lack of ablution,
God has cleft the continents with
rivers and lakes, and has sunk five great
oceans, and all the world onght TO be
clean. Away, then, with the dirt from
our cities, not only because the physical
health needs an ablutlOn, but because all
the great moral and religious interests of
the cities demand it as 4 positive neces-
sity. A filthy city always has been and
always will be a wicked city.
Through the upturning Of the earth for
great improvement our city could not be
expected to be as clean as usual, but for
the illimitable dirt of Brooklyn for the
last six months there is nc excuse. 1t is
not merely matter Of dust IN the eyes,
and mud for the shoes, and of stencil for
the nostrils, but of morals for the soul.
Another corrective influence that we
would bring to bear upon the evils'of our
great cities is Christian printing press.
The newspapers of any place are the test
Of its morality or immortality. The news
boy who runs along the street with
roll Of papers under his arm is ire
mendous force that cannot be turned
aside nor resisted, and at his every step
the city is elevated or degraded. This
hungry, all-deYouring American mind
must have something to read, and upon
editors, and authors, and book publish
ers, and parents and teachers rest the re-
sponsioility of what they shall read.
Almost every man you meet has book IN
mis- hand or 8 newsps per IN his pocket.
What book is it you have in your hand!
What newspaper is il you have in your
pocket. Ministers may preach, reform
ers may plan, philanthrop;sts may toll for
the elevation of the suffering and the
criminal, but until all the newspapers OF
the land and all the booksellers of the
land set themselves against IN ubiquitous
literature until then we shall be lighting
AGAINST FEARFUL ODDS.
Every time the cylinders of our great pub
fishing houses turn they make the earth
quake. From them goes forth thought
Ike an angel of light to feed and bless
the world, or ike an angel OF darkness 10
smite il with corruption sud sin ana
shame and death. May God by His ON
nipotent spirit purify and elevate the
American printing press.
g on further and say that we must
depend upon the school for g great deal
Of correcting influence. Community can
no more afford to have ignorant men In
its midst thsn it can afford to have un-
Gagged hyenas. Ignorance is the mother